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Eastern Shipbuilding launches HOS Riverbend

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 — Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc, Panama City, FL, this month launched the HOS Riverbend (H204) for Hornbeck Offshore Services, LLC.   Those attending the launching ceremonies at Eastern’s Allanton

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Azerbaijan inaugurates new Baku Shipyard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 — The President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev today officially opened the new 62,000 sq.m Baku Shipyard. The new shipbuilding facility has been jointly developed by Singapore’s Keppel Offshore &

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GD makes leadership changes at shipyards

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013 — General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) says that Jeffrey S. Geiger, president of General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, will become president of General Dynamics Electric Boat effective November 4, 2013,

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Harvey Deep-Sea gets GoM gigs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 — DOF Subsea Group reports that it has recently been awarded multiple subsea projects for the chartered in vessel Harvey Deep-Sea in the Gulf of Mexico. DOF Subsea signed

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Brazilian submarine construction program moves ahead

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Brazil’s shipbuilding ambitions are not confined to tankers and various vessels to support Petrobras’s offshore activity. They also extend to nuclear submarine construction. A reminder of this comes

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Eastern Shipbuilding signs FORAN agreement with SENER

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 — Panama City, FL, based Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. has entered into a license agreement with Spain’s SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. to use SENER’s FORAN CAD/CAM System and

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STX Finland to close Rauma Shipyard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 — STX Finland is to shutter its Rauma Shipyard by the end of next summer. Its functions will be shifted the larger Turku Shipyard in a restructuring that will

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Ingalls Shipbuilding starts fabrication on DDG 114

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 — The Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE:HII) has started fabrication of the U.S. Navy’s next Aegis guided missile destroyer, Ralph Johnson (DDG 114). Ship’s sponsor Georgeann

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Bergen Group shipyards reborn as NorYards

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013 —  The shipbuilding division of Norway’s Bergen Group is about to start a new life, as NorYards AS. It will be 51% percent owned by Calexco, a company with